The Stones are one of four bands listed at the end...but no Stones music in the trailer!

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Is this film also known as The Boat The Rocked with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy etc.?

>> Is this film also known as The Boat The Rocked ... ?<<

yep - the title was changed when it moved to North America

I saw it at the cinema, but it was a first date, so my mind wasn't really "on" the film. From memory it was a fun flick, but not quite as good as I thought it would be...or was that the date? LOL - no I'm still seeing the girl.

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studiorambo
I saw it at the cinema, but it was a first date, so my mind wasn't really "on" the film. From memory it was a fun flick, but not quite as good as I thought it would be...or was that the date? LOL - no I'm still seeing the girl.

haha cheers mate I still remember my first movie with a girl, but by then I didn't even know if the film was b&w or in color

This one will be neat to see, considering the Who Sell Out was all a homage to the pirate radio stations.
Also didnt one of them (Radio Caroline, perhaps?) record and broadcast a Stones show from 1964 or 65? Is this available somewhere?

An awful film saved by the music. The only Stones track that I can recall from the soundtrack was Let's Spend The Night Together.

With a smile on your face and a tear right in your eye

Jumpin' Jack Flash too. Definitely a crap film though.

"Let's Spend The Night Together"

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Not completely crap movie - gets 7,6 on IMDB

this isn't based in any reality is it? just whimsical, right? there was no attempt to ban rock and roll in the UK? i know it was banned in hungary...

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i know it was banned in hungary...

When they were still going by Ceylon, Sri Lanka once banned both rock music and whimsy, so it is fortuitous you are not asking about that particular period of history. I'm not even sure how we would go about answering it.

>> this isn't based in any reality is it? <<

there really were offshore radio stations in the mid-60s in the UK, and a heavy-handed move to outlaw them in 1967,
and yeah, it was popular music that they were broadcasting. i haven't seen the film
so i don't know how much fiction's been added, but you should look up Radio Caroline -
that's wasn't the only offshore station, but it's the most famous one.
calling the squashing of these stations an attempt to outlaw rock & roll would be an oversimplification,
but keeping that jungle music under tighter control was no doubt one of the issues.

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little queenie
this isn't based in any reality is it? just whimsical, right? there was no attempt to ban rock and roll in the UK? i know it was banned in hungary...

yes- very much based on reality...Radio Caroline, Radio Luxembourg....all our legendary DJ's started on the boats...Everett,Blackburn, etc

Oh, the film's shit, by the way.

the Stones, Kinks and Who music figure prominently. I liked the movie, especially the scene where the old hippie was trying to rescue his record collections. hilarious

>> Radio Luxembourg <<

smile: Luxembourg was a country rather than a boat - but offshore is offshore, i guess! :E
and/or Adrian-L was just checking to see if we're paying attention [passing popcorn]

anyway i'm sorry to hear it's a crappy film - i was hoping it would do the subject justice,
but (cf Cadillac Records) there seems to be a trend for making lame films out of great episodes in music history.

didn't Jagger mention last year that he was thinking about making some kind of history-of-the-music-business flick?



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Radio Luxembourg was not broadcast from a boat,
but was a pirate radio station, in violation of Uk licencing.

thanks Adrian-L - i didn't mean to step on your toes, i was just clarifying for people who don't know.
and yeah, Radio Luxembourg was also crucial to splattering jungle rhythms all over the UK -
Keith talks about wandering around his bedroom with his transistor radio in the evenings,
struggling to keep tuned in to Radio Luxembourg ... somewhere i read/heard that due to some sort of meteorological fluke,
Radio Luxembourg's broadcasts were a lot easier to pick up in Liverpool than in London ... and the rest is history :E



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well...you learn something new every day. i'd never heard about this...thanks!

no worries with sssoul,
just happy to add to this historically fascinating subject.

There's a scene which doesn't appear in the cinema version but can be viewed as outtake on the DVD.
There's the one guy talking about how he found the sense of life. He's sitting in a bar, puts a coin into the musicbox and "Get Off Of My Cloud" screams while he's dancing with a black woman and a guy. Funny :-)

The film's not as good as I'd have hoped, given the subject and the cast (some very silly plotlines and too many good actors wasted in throwaway roles) but they do have one thing absolutely right - the scene at the beginning with the kid listening to a pirate station on a transistor radio tucked under the pillow so his parents can't hear it (cheap radios didn't come with headphones). I used to do that myself - in my case Radio Luxembourg, which was the very devil to stay tuned to - for some reason the ads used to come through loud and clear, but halfway through a good track the damn thing would fade out into crackles and hisses. You had to listen with one finger on the tuning dial all the time.

The BBC had the legal monopoly of radio in the UK, and they were very staid. Not much pop music at all, and also the Beeb were in the habit of banning any record they thought was in questionable taste - in which case you'd only be able to hear it via the pirate stations. And their standards for "questionable taste" were pretty strict.

Not a good film, but it brought back a lot of memories for me.

Thanks for the tip Greenlady I was planned to see the Movie I will wait when it will broadcast on TV.

I have great memories when we had Pirate radio in Holland, we got Radio Veronica from '65 till '73 and Radio Noordzee (Nordsea) and of course Radio Luxembourg



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Apparently The Stones did a whole session for Radio Luxembourg in 1964:

640318A 18th March: Luxemburgian radio (Radio Luxembourg) 'Nestle’s Top
Swinging Groups', London, IBC or Regent Sound Studios. Recording
of fourteen unverified tracks:
- Bye Bye Johnny (Chuck Berry)
- Diddley Daddy (Ellas McDaniel/Harvey Fuqua)
- I Wanna Be Your Man (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
- Little By Little (Nanker Phelge/Phil Spector)
- Look What You've Done (McKinley Morganfield)
- Mona (Ellas McDaniel)
- Not Fade Away (Norman Petty/Charles Hardin Holly)
- Now I’ve Got A Witness (Nanker Phelge)
- Pretty Thing (Willie Dixon)
- Reelin’ And Rockin’ (Chuck Berry)
- Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry)
- Route 66 (Bobby Troup)
- Walking The Dog (Rufus Thomas)
- You Better Move On (Arthur Alexander)
Note: Broadcast in 15 minute-slots on the 17th April, 24th April, 1st May
and 8th May.

[www.nzentgraf.de]


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Oddly enough, one reason that we now have all those great live sessions from the Stones at the BBC in the 60s is because the BBC didn't play their records very much! There were strict rules about how much "needle time" they could have in a day's broadcasting: the rest had to be provided by live musicians. If you were lucky, you heard the Stones or whoever playing live in the studio. If you weren't, you had to listen to one of the BBC's in-house bands and its resident singers doing their best (?) to cover whatever was in the charts that week - painful listening at times!

The in-house bands must have been like those dreadful records I was bought by Nan - Top of the Pops, which was chart music, only not played by the bands who were in the charts! You just revived an unhappy memory there, anoynoe else remember those?

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Oddly enough, one reason that we now have all those great live sessions from the Stones at the BBC in the 60s is because the BBC didn't play their records very much! There were strict rules about how much "needle time" they could have in a day's broadcasting: the rest had to be provided by live musicians. If you were lucky, you heard the Stones or whoever playing live in the studio. If you weren't, you had to listen to one of the BBC's in-house bands and its resident singers doing their best (?) to cover whatever was in the charts that week - painful listening at times!